Me and my two chidren, eating at my workplace.
Coffe and sandwich
Some energizing topping..
And the idéa for minimalist? Perhaps a boatgame I had in mind before the compo. Yes, I’ll elaborate on that idéa. The minimalist part will be the visualisation of the game, both graphics and sound. Clean, simple.
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Me and my two chidren, eating at my workplace.
Coffe and sandwich
Some energizing topping..
And the idéa for minimalist? Perhaps a boatgame I had in mind before the compo. Yes, I’ll elaborate on that idéa. The minimalist part will be the visualisation of the game, both graphics and sound. Clean, simple.
Tags: foodphoto
Done for the day.
Spent the better half of the evening playing around in Ableton Live. I had the idea of writing a song that’d progress to the next part after each micro sized level. Here’s what I ended up with, arranged linearly.
Sheeat… I’m not sure I wanted quite such a dark tone. Now I gotta make a game suit that mood.
I have been trying to get this small library working all day. It uses the python/c api. I am compiling the extension with mingw using the sdl and sdl_image libraries. I will add to this library as the weekend goes along as I need to. I am still not sure if ill use this library. It depends on the theme which will be announced in like 5 seconds. kthxbai.
pynitro v0.1 – its very basic right now. Just posted this to prove I couldnt possibly make a game from this yet, lol.
Sausage and Portabella Mushroom. We got the sausage pizza from the Supermarket and added the mushrooms. Yum! Now, only moments away from the theme….
Hey Guys,
Three of us here in New Zealand have met together to encourage each other and be merry for this competition.
Don’t worry we’re still solo.
Triorph using C++ and SDL/OpenGL
Surrealix using C++ and openscenegraph
and Doofer is using C# and SDL.net, and is the lone windows user in the room. /hides
The towel on Triorphs screen is because his laptop screen is broken, and just has an annoying flickering that needs to be blocked
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I’m going to try to join the competition, no promises since Saturday already seems to be largely full already.
I’ve still got to decide if I am going to try to make an entry in C/C++, Python + Pygame, or Java.
Good luck everyone! This is my first time!
Theme winner is Minimalist.
I’ll have to think about this one.
Seems the theme is Minimalist. I have no clue what I’m going to do with that, but hopefully I’ll think of something. As for how I’m going to do it, C++, and SDL.
Good luck to everyone.
I fear most of the screenshots will end up looking like this.
Anyway, feel free to grab the release candidate 1, about 2 hours after starting..
OK, forget that last arrangement. This ones much better.
(EDIT: OOPS! Wrong link!)
It could use many tweaks, but I’m much happier with the direction this is going. Remember, each change is roughly the soundtrack for a level.
Ideally, each level is a “page” from a story. The glitch part is where something happens. If I was really cool, I’d say something like the guitar represents the villain, but really at the moment it’s just several melodic layers I think sound neat.
So, I had a premonition that this theme might win, and have been thinking of games that would work well in it. Not going to reveal much yet but I have a very clear direction and I’m looking forward to being able to put this game together!
So for now I’m going to write up all the things I think the game should do, and come up with some scheme to ensure they all get done. Onward!
Tags: game, ideas, minimalist
Minimalist.
And it won by a huge margin.
What the heck? A Ludum Dare game is pretty much “minimalist” by default!
Hmm, haven’t done one of these in quite a while. I’m going to give it a go.
I’m going to try to do an rpg I think, a minimal kind of rpg maybe. Still thinking about it.
I’m going to use Visual Studio 2008, .Net Framework 3.5 and the Blitz3d sdk. I’ve never used the sdk before so this might be tricky. Will spend probably 10 hours or so on it only.
Well wish me luck!
Several ideas come to mind but I don’t think they will be doable in 48 hrs. I have a scientist who continually makes himself smaller, until he is the size of an electron. Ok, it’s a cool idea, but I would need a few days to gameify it I think. Is it a shooter, a puzzler? What exactly do you do in the game? How do I handle the shrink effect? Too complicated.
Next, we have the building puzzle game. There is some sort of support structure holding something up, and you have to remove pieces to some minimal limit without knocking it down. Something sort of like jenga, but without putting the pieces back. Unfortunately, this relies far too heavily on good physics balancing. Make physics important for an LD48and it will crumble like the house of cards you are modelling. That is one of my rules.
My last resort is to be boring and come up with something cool for dots to do and say, “hey look, everything is a dot, see it’s minimalistic!” I most likely will be doing something like this, unless I come up with something better or manage to work my other ideas into something manageable.
Good luck all!
I’m going to eat this leftover Thai green curry.
It has anything but minimal flavour.
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a minimal cereal..?
Well, while I try and step back from the IRC channel for a bit to collect my thoughts on the theme announced ‘Minimalist’ I feel nothing would hit the spot better then some minimalist toasted -o’s. No fluff here, just the bare essentials.
Tags: cereal, foodphoto, friday, minimalist
How the flying feces am I going to make use of minimalist?
Minimal what?
Graphics? Sound? Gameplay? All?
Fine then. I’ll make a clone of Pong with black paddles and a black ball on a black background.
Here’s my workspace, is in synchro with the theme, minimalist. 😉
